People: Jake Arnott, Stephanie Theobald and Gabby Logan

Jake Arnott, the hard-boiled author, is a Pink List favourite who created the terrifying homosexual East End villain Harry Starks for his acclaimed novel The Long Firm.

Stephanie Theobald fictionalised her Sapphic encounters in a racy novel, Biche, and is one of London’s most celebrated literary lesbians. Well, perhaps opposites really do attract, as the pair are now exploring a hitherto untapped heterosexuality together. “It’s true, I am shacked up with Jake,” Theobald says.

“I was attracted by the fact that he looked like a prisoner out on parole when I first saw him at the Hay Festival.” She helped him to write a “black Mass” section of his new novel, The Devil’s Paintbrush. But her new novel, A…

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